{"id":283008,"date":"2017-12-19T18:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T14:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=283008"},"modified":"2017-12-20T17:06:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:06:29","slug":"doctors-confirm-protesting-yerevan-students-refusing-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/12\/19\/doctors-confirm-protesting-yerevan-students-refusing-food.html","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Confirm Protesting Yerevan Students Refusing Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The students who have been on a hunger strike to protest against the abolishment of military draft deferments were examined by doctors on the evening of December 18, Epress.am was told by Davit Petrosyan, one of the protesting students.<\/p>\n<p>Note, in conversation with Tert.am, Yerevan State University rector Aram Simonyan had doubted that the students were actually refusing to eat any food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell me please why I should even negotiate with them. I\u2019m not even convinced that they are not eating anything. Davit Petrosyan is a big boy; if he has decided that he is going to starve himself, I\u2019m going to let him do that,\u201d Simonyan had said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Petrosyan, the doctors have managed to put an end to the rector\u2019s doubts: \u201cThe doctors came to examine us at 9pm yesterday. We wanted them to come and see that we were in fact not eating anything because there were people who doubted us, including our rector. They checked us and confirmed that we are actually on a hunger strike.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note, in conversation with Tert.am, Yerevan State University rector Aram Simonyan had doubted that the students were actually refusing to eat any food&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[65984,66049],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}